ABSTRACT
The academic field of terrorism needs a new type of writer, whose positionality and style of thinking should neither be as a conventional counterterrorist nor a novelist. This chapter explains why we need a new type of thinking in relation to the current problems of terrorism studies. It attempts to pursue a theoretical framework that (1) provides a geographical perspective to the current discourse-centered and historicist interpretation of terrorism and counterterrorism; that (2) moves beyond the conventional interpretation that focuses on confrontation and open conflict in the war on terror by exploring various nonviolent, informal, hidden and often ambiguous practices of resistance, and the various processes of negotiation within the implementation stage of counterterrorism; and that (3) delineates these processes of space-making and negotiation through the discourses and practices of counterterrorism in everyday, socioeconomic contexts. These three aspects are further situated in the geo-and chronological context of China.
